The Nuns at the Top of the Charts

For the fifth week running, an order of monastic nuns in rural Missouri has the nation's top-selling album of traditional classical music. Most of these isolated singers don't know that they created a niche hit with their recordings of ancient chants and hymns, or that it's their second release to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart.

"We don't even talk about it. The sisters might be curious, and I could tell them, but it doesn't matter," says Mother Cecilia, head of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, a...

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